Torches for Superman
Raymond Williams, 21 November 1985
By the Open Sea
by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach.
Secker, 193 pp., £8.95, October 1984,0 436 50008 6 Show More
by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach.
Secker, 193 pp., £8.95, October 1984,
August Strindberg
by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo.
Faber, 399 pp., £20, September 1984,0 571 11812 7 Show More
by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo.
Faber, 399 pp., £20, September 1984,
Strindberg: A Biography
by Michael Meyer.
Secker, 651 pp., £25, October 1985,0 436 27852 9 Show More
by Michael Meyer.
Secker, 651 pp., £25, October 1985,
“... of his radical and popular and even outcast inheritance, though it is nothing of the kind. Olof Lagercrantz has to begin his biography by saying that what we are told in the novel about Strindberg as a child is ‘either useless or downright misleading’, and that consequently he ‘will not dwell upon any of those opinion-forming, tear-jerking ... ”
